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ribtokstoday at 3:27 PM2 repliesview on HN

Use proof-of-work captchas, many are private by default. Look into Private Captcha or Cap captcha.


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mootothemaxtoday at 5:33 PM

Speaking from the scraper’s perspective, I like proof of work; a ten year old 96-core server will cost a couple of quid to run for a few hours and will grab an absurd number of pages thanks to the access granted by repeatedly solving proofs of work. Small slick codebases too!

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phoronixrlytoday at 3:43 PM

How does proof of work stop bots?

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